Nitrogen in your tires? What's the advantage of inflating your tires with Nitrogen?

Answer 1

On your average car, none. The air you breath is 78% Nitrogen anyway so if you want to spend the extra money go ahead. The only advantage I see is there is no oxygen or water vapor to allow rusting on the inside of your wheels. Oh and by the way, nitrogen does expand and contract with temperature change.

Answer 2

Nitrogen is the way to go if you can find it. If you buy tires at Costco that is what they use to inflate the tires. The main advantage is that nitrogen will maintain the proper pressure better than regular air because it has bigger molecules. I think it has better properties when the tires get hot from driving down the highway also.

Answer 3

The only two reasons nitrogen is used in tires is in racing, where a precise pressure is needed to maintain the car's handling and where hundredths of a second mean the difference between winning and losing, or by retail tire shops that need help emptying the wallets of their customers. The underlying reason for this is that pure nitrogen doesn't expand as much as normal air as it heats up, thus making the tire pressure more stable as the tire heats up. Unless you drive your car 200 miles an hour for several hours at a time, you will never see the benefits of nitrogen, and you will never recover the extra expense. Tires rotting from the inside? Please. I have told my wife that I will only leave her for two reasons. One is if she shaves her eyebrows and draws them back in with a Sharpie, the other is if she spends any of our hard-earned money putting nitrogen in any of the twelve tires on our two cars and one motorcycle.

Answer 4

the air we breath is about 80% nitrogen and 12% oxygen with the rest being assorted gasses. with nitrogen only tires, you remove all of the moisture during the processing stage of the final product
(nitrogen only gas) so your tires will be inflated with 0 % humidity
that will probley help the inside of the tires without developing rot.
prematurley. but most of the time with tire shops compressing air themselves, this removes 95% of the moisture anyway. and the failure rate of a tire rotting out before it wears out has to be pretty slim

Answer 5

Filling your tires with nitrogen has it benefits, It'll stop the oxidation in the rubber from the oxygen content pumped into your tires, nitrogen is a dry gas so it won't hold moisture leading to rust on and degradation of the rubber and rim, and its a stable gas, it won't expand or contract with the temperature as much as regular air would do. It is known that a tire will lose about 2-8 psi per winter up north.

Answer 6

Nitrogen is better for the tires, as it won't hurt the tires on the insides. Also, the nitrogen is a bigger molecule, than the air that your putting in the tire, thus won't leak out as much as the regular air. Straight air in the tire, will also have some moisture in it, thus causing other problems as well.

Answer 7

the only advantage is for the place selling it to you. A big pile of crap service. I doubt you are driving 200 mph for hours at a time. But if you are then sure get the nitrogen.

Answer 8

What's the differance? Air is 71 % Nitrogen. Big whoop!

Answer 9

Very little for the cost...I think the advantage is perceived weight and fuel milage savings essides a corrosion resistance.

Use it if you are racing cars.

Answer 10

nitrogen wont expand as much as air so you have a constant pressure no matter what the tempature